Is It Bad That the Main Character’s a Roleplayer? - Chapter 32

◈Episode 32 In front of the fruits of choice (7)

It was a godsend that I came with a map and marked the route.

With the Archmage’s Haste assistance—it was my first time receiving a buff!—I walked out of the underpass limping but walking quickly.

It would have been annoying if demons had appeared, but I guess Regen hasn’t happened yet, so there weren’t any mobs to be seen.

Unlike before, where you had to move around to specify the destination itself, now all you had to do was move towards the designated location. This means that as long as you have a map, you can find the shortest route.

Thanks to this, I was able to get outside earlier than expected and as a result, I was able to find smoke rising from one side.

I’ve only ever seen smoke that thick before when there was a fire in a building. Still, it’s a bit strange that a fire suddenly breaks out at this time.

Above all, if it were a general fire, red and green would not be mixed. That is definitely a quest clue.

“That is….”

“Ah, wizard!”

“That person next to that….”

Even if you want to go there, you have to escape from the riverbank first.

I limped a little and headed toward the slope. It was around the same time that those forming a defensive position on the riverbank discovered us and came down.

“Thank you for your help. Just help him before me.”

“Not required.”

HP is almost full.

For some reason, the speed of increase slowed down significantly after reaching 70%… Well, 70% is enough.

Action penalties due to injuries and fatigue are a problem.

“It hurts…!”

“I’ll help you!”

“I would have said it wasn’t necessary.”

In fact, it is very necessary, but the concept must be maintained.

Anyway, the devil has encroached on me here. I can’t even resist if I’m misunderstood.

For that reason, I stubbornly walked alone, with tears in my eyes. The blood that had not yet dried left marks with each step.

“Don’t be stubborn. “If you came this far with your internal organs eaten away, you must have overexerted yourself.”

“Yes?!”

But the Archmage—thankfully—shooed. The bear-shaped Shaggi adventurer’s hand lifted me up.

“…! “Don’t touch my body…!”

“Hey, I know you’re strong, but please save your life.”

Normally, I would have quickly dodged it, but with my body in this state, it is difficult to even resist. Since he knew it was in that state to begin with, the Archmage probably ordered others to do it.

“It’s none of your business!”

“There’s still a fight left.”

“…!”

Can’t you see the Archmage grabbing the back of his head behind him? Well, there are no eyes in the back of the head, so of course you can’t see them.

If you say that in the first place, you wouldn’t know that I am giving up on rest and running.

Thanks to this, I can no longer rest. Wow.

I glared at Shaggy, who had one eye closed with a bandage, and let out a sigh.

Still, it’s comfortable. It’s draped over wide shoulders like a sack, so it doesn’t look out of place.

“Cough.”

“…!”

It was a bit problematic that some blood was spitting out of the mouth as if the wound had burst. HP drops again.

“Are you an adventurer?! “What if I act ignorantly like that!?”

A healer came rushing in from behind the defense line—maybe because it had a red cross emblem?—and struck the adventurer carrying me.

By the time we got up to the riverbank, we had already received all the help we could possibly need, so it wasn’t much of a hit.

“Treat right away.”

“That smoke.”

I barely managed to hold on as I fell to the floor and fell forward. In fact, rather than holding on to it, the Shagi adventurer who had lowered it may have changed its form by supporting it. But anyway.

“what?”

“We don’t know that either.”

“I can’t see the Inquisitor. Did he go that way?”

“Ah yes wizard. He said it was suspicious and went that way. Maybe it’s with people who got a head start? “We are staying here just in case.”

I spit out the last lump of blood that came up. Blood, along with pieces of internal organs, were sprinkled on the floor.

“Wait so much blood…! First, transfer to the hospital─.”

What about the hospital? I stood up using the sword I had been holding so tenaciously as a walking stick.

Am I really playing a game or practicing? I was so tired and tired, but I couldn’t stop here.

The concept is a concept, but when I thought about it, there was no way the quest could proceed without the player…!

Of course, some games can be played by NPCs… but it was a rule of all games that when NPCs worked instead of players, the quality of the finished product deteriorated.

“I will go. “You can rest here.”

“Even wise men don’t just talk like humans.”

“What are you going to do with that body?”

no. My HP is still around 70%. If you want to fight, you can fight. I’m now used to feeling dizzy. maybe?

“There’s nothing you can’t do.”

「❖ What’s hidden behind the scenes

∎ Stopping the devil worshipers’ plans

∎ Bonus: Eliminating demons 221 / ??」

I guess I put that up because I thought I should do the quest too. So I have to go.

“Hey.”

But suddenly a voice came out and I felt a dull pain in the back of my neck.

“These types of people can’t say anything… and…?”

It doesn’t hurt, but I don’t feel very good.

I slowly lifted my head, which was slightly protruding forward, and tilted it back.

“Uh…”

Did you just hit it?

“….”

“….”

I glared at the same race as Dev – Qality – adventurer. I wasn’t even immersed in it, but blood suddenly rose in my neck. The person who actually caught my gaze seemed embarrassed and averted his eyes to the side.

“You’re right.”

But even though this archmage couldn’t take my side, he just sat there saying things like that. Even the next action was similar to what the Qureity adventurer had just done.

Sigh!

“Get some rest.”

…Do you not remember that I was tied up in chains earlier and saw you in a bad situation?! Don’t tie me up with bindings!!

“How dare you disturb me…!”

“This is for your benefit.”

If that’s going to happen, either properly stun that damn NPC…!

“That’s not up to you!”

I have already learned the trick of wearing skills on my bare body. Snapping. Feeling some relief in my itchy right arm, I finally ripped off the binding.

“…! “Now!”

At the same time, I was angry again. Do you think I’m doing this because I want to? You think I went in alone because I wanted to go in alone!

No, it’s not just the concept. In the first place, I no longer like this game, a game made like this…!

Sigh!

Is it because it’s AI? It seems that learning is not possible.

I split the chain rising from the floor with my right hand. Suddenly, a black mark was left in the air and then disappeared in an instant.

‘Should I kill him?’

It’s really annoying.

Quang!

I slammed the longsword I was holding into the floor. If I kept holding it, I felt like I could throw it even if I didn’t swing it.

And if you get hit by a 2kg rebar, you will definitely get bruises.

“Wizard! Don’t test me anymore…! “I don’t have the confidence to control myself anymore than this…!”

Regardless of the concept, this is sincere.

Rather, it was really too much to put a large walleye bread like kimchi dumpling or to use a binding on a person who was even chained around his neck. It may be too much to ask for such delicacy from an NPC, but still!

“…!”

Damn it. I feel really dirty. Of course, the source of this irritation may not be the bindings but the accumulated fatigue, but that doesn’t change my current feelings.

It was a total mess. It is possible to think justly if you are less tired, but you are not in a position to do that.

“…Get out of the way.”

There is no way to solve this. I have no choice but to finish the quest quickly and sleep.

I looked over at the terrified faces slowly moving away and headed towards where I could see the smoke.

When are we going to go there again? There was a long way to go.

* * *

The Deathbringer knelt in front of the pile of corpses. In front of him, squatting, there is a person with a knife stuck in his neck.

“…Devil worshipers are no big deal.”

Who would have guessed that the suspicious target they were following was actually a devil worshiper?

Moreover, it was a combination of coincidence and luck that I followed them and reached their hideout disguised as a business meeting.

I couldn’t bear to leave them alone after witnessing the ritual they were conducting, so I set it on fire, even though it touched the magic circle and the sacrifice and completely ruined the ritual.

Also, they didn’t summon the devil on their own!

Thanks to this, I was able to kill them one by one by cutting their throats and driving a knife into their hearts. If there was a devil, killing people was his specialty, so it wasn’t difficult at all.

“I didn’t think it had anything to do with this.”

He scratched his head over who he had killed.

I’ve never had a face-to-face encounter like this before—I only assisted the magician in the rear in Somon’s basement, so it’s a no count. I had vaguely thought that I wouldn’t be able to deal with it.

But it was so surprising when it turned out that wasn’t actually the case.

“Even if you make a contract with the devil, a person is still a person…”

Of course, it’s not necessarily because his skills are outstanding. You can be sure of that. This result involved a lot of fluke and luck.

But does what he achieved disappear just because he applied luck?

At least he learned from this that if he did well, he could kill even a demon contractor. This means that the vague impossibility has turned into a concrete possibility.

And there is a pretty big gap between the two.

He could do it too. It’s not like it’s just a hindrance, but it means that with a little effort and attention, you can do it like you are doing now.

“Rather than that, what should I do about this?”

The only problem is handling it afterwards.

He scratched his cheek as he looked at the burning pile of corpses and the broken magic circle of those who had lost their lives in his hands.

“If you give me a signal, it will come on its own.”

All you have to do is get people’s attention. At least one of them is probably a member of the castle lord or a sect, and will come here to investigate the cause. If you do so, the post-processing will be automatically scheduled.

So the Deathbringer jumped up and left the building. And I squatted down on the rooftop behind the signboard called Gridana Sanghoe.

In his hand is a dye powder that he obtained a long time ago and carries around in small quantities. It was an object that changed the color of smoke when placed in a bonfire.

Passsss.

As expensive as it was, the effect was excellent, and the smoke from the huge bonfire lit as a signal quickly took on color.

Just in case, I mixed the two colors and smoked them, so I’m sure someone will come here.

“good.”

So now all we have to do is hide ourselves. That’s true even if he didn’t do anything wrong.

There was no guarantee that the person who would see this signal would be his friend.

“…Wow, I knew this right away.”

It was as if some suspicious people were running straight towards me.

“What is it?”

On the outside, he looks no different from a civilian, but in the eyes of an incumbent thief, he can see his own flaws.

Shoes that are cleaner than used clothes, clothes that are worn out and don’t look like they’ve been borrowed from several people, and white skin that hasn’t been scorched by the sun.

This is the amount of information I can confirm while hiding in a far away place, but it will be even more when I look up close. No matter how you look at it, it’s creepy.

“Did you get caught?”

“I could have just done a little more…”

This is even more so when he makes related remarks without any sense of tension.

The fact that Deathbringer had just done it made me throw away my excitement and confidence and think as calmly as I could.

It would be easier to keep it alive rather than kill it. But is there anything he can do to keep up?

The massacre just now was possible because all kinds of variables overlapped.

There had to be more reliable force. For example, a force that can completely ignore and wipe out no matter what the demon followers prepare, such as the unlucky priest Narina or the demon knight.

“It was a golden opportunity to send away a damn hero.”

“It’s already over. “It looks like the underpass area has already been completely destroyed in the first place.”

The problem is that because his body is one, he cannot chase them and deliver news at the same time.

“Go back. “What we have to do now is get out of the city.”

“okay.”

Ah, I really didn’t want to use this method.

He held his breath quietly, suppressing a slight discomfort. Squeaky. There was a sound of something being torn.

“Hurry and jump before it comes!”

A new shadow joined the shadows of those who quickly escaped.

“Please guide me.”

Shadow mark. It is a skill that only a very small percentage of members of the Information Guild can learn.

It was also the most outstanding tracking technique, finding the location of the enemy by tearing off one’s own shadow and attaching it to the enemy.

“Then towards the temple….”

Ah. I forgot.

“There’s no way those damn bastards will listen.”

Even when I said I was going to see the horses, they told me to get out of there because they couldn’t tell who was the owner. So I had to sit on the wall and secretly watch the horses.

But will those priests believe this? No, never! They can’t do that!

“I think the Adventurer’s Guild is the answer.”

There were only those who seemed to have no spirit, so will they be enough?

Still, it would be better than him pursuing it alone. Since we know each other, we can at least communicate.

“Ugh.”

How did I get caught up in something like this?

Deathbringer sighed in frustration and started playing with his legs. Since it was an urgent matter, the housemaster had to rush in.

“you!”

“what. “It’s Saenim.”

Then, I guess it was fate that I encountered an unexpected connection.

“It just worked out well. Hey, you stuffy guy. “I found some people who I suspect are demon contractors. Could you please come with me?”

“…You’re sure about that, right?”

“It’s a plague, so you can say nothing.”

“No, I’m going! Guide me!”

The fact that it was so close from the start was probably not due to my mood.

* * *

“Hey, what happened here?”

“Aang? “What are you?”

“Ah, aren’t you the wizard who was with the priest! And… you were alive too? Did you come out of the underpass alive?”

“He is very tired, so it would be best not to talk to him. “Could you please get out of the way for a moment?”

“ah. Yes yes. Please feel at ease.”

“….”

“The priest said it was a trace of consciousness… but does the wizard see it differently?”

“…This.”

“Do you have any problem?”

“It looks like the Inquisitor has been here and back. Do you know where he went?”

“yes? You mean priest? He took some of the people who came out to investigate and went to the west street. “We stayed here to protect the evidence.”

“West Street. Okay. Demon knight! Let’s go now!”

“What is it?”

“We must catch the demon followers before they escape the city or switch to another ritual!”